Automation and the future of work and welfare

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Are we nearing the end of human work? Is automation reaching the point where there won’t be enough work left for human beings? And how would the loss of work affect our humanity and flourishing?

Victor Claar, an affiliate scholar of the Acton Institute, addressed these questions in a brief talk at the IMAGINE Conference 2018 organized by the Adam Smith Center on the topic “Automation and the Future of Work and Welfare.”

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Joe Carter
Joe Carter is a Senior Editor at the Acton Institute. Joe also serves as an editor at the The Gospel Coalition, a communications specialist for the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, and as an adjunct professor of journalism at Patrick Henry College. He is the editor of the NIV Lifehacks Bible and co-author of How to Argue like Jesus: Learning Persuasion from History's Greatest Communicator (Crossway).